There is a newspaper claiming he's now working with GCHQ. I doubt such information is true, but given what happened to Gareth Williams in similar circumstances, I'd suggest it's egregiously irresponsible for a newspaper to even suggest it given everyone now knows who he is.
> But his former landlady, Jennifer Elliot, told the inquest that three years before his death, she and her husband had heard Williams call for help at 1.30am from the annex flat he was renting from them in Cheltenham, where he worked at GCHQ.
> They let themselves in with the spare key and found the codes expert lying on his back on the bed, in boxer shorts, with his hands tied to the bed posts with material so tight it had cut his wrists.
> In a statement read to the inquest, Elliot said she and her husband had both been in shock. Her husband asked Williams: "What the bloody hell are you doing?" Williams told them: "I just wanted to see if could get myself free."
> The statement added that he did not appear sexually aroused, and was "very embarrassed, panicky and apologetic."
> The couple, who never spoke to anyone about the incident, said they concluded it was "sexual rather than escapology".
I'm not sure this has any impact on the ability of the services to recruit staff, compared to things like compensation, or having to fill in "permission to socialise" forms...
I don't think anyone much thought it was anything but an extremely suspicious death. In many ways matching almost too perfectly the imaginary world of Spies we like to watch/read about.
Gareth was a quiet, private person completely unknown prior to his death. Various news media pawed over the gory detail without so much as a thought to public interest or the bereaved.
